More vs. Less
Make sure your method for hiding/showing complexity is clear enough that it doesn’t frustrate the user who cannot find the…
Google® Navigation — GUI Review
Google is constantly changing the way it displays the current option in its navigation bar. Following are a series of…
One Way Ticket — GUI Design
One-way tickets certainly have their place in the physical world, but not in the navigation of dialogs in a GUI.…
Clicking Labels — GUI Design
Labels for checkboxes and radio buttons should always be clickable. (Other controls should have clickable labels also, when it makes…
Let Me Out! — GUI Design
Some weeks ago I received an e-mail from a GUI Notebook reader who was frustrated trying to figure out how…
WordPress® (Revisited) — GUI Review
This GUI is fantastic. I still give it a solid 4 out of 5 GNs. I’m quite pleased by the…
Don’t Forget to Focus — GUI Design
Every display in your GUI should have the focus specifically set. Set the focus at the most likely control that…
Gmail® by Google® (Revisited) — GUI Review
It’s great that Google is willing to keep making improvements. Of the twenty problems with the previous GUI that were…
Gmail® by Google® — GUI Review
There are only two navigation options in Gmail: Mail and Contacts. Everything else is either 1) a filter or option…
Auto Outlines — GUI Design
Beware of Automatic! If you’re doing something automatically for the user, then you’d better make it easy for them to…